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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-27
HIsCOCK NAMED FOR PRESIDENT
His Little Boom starts In Cortland County
james j. BeIden Ter Congress.

james j. Belden Ter Congress.
SYRACUSE, Sept. 26.-The nomination of
James ]. Bolden OF this city to succeed sena-
tor-elect Frank Hiscock in Congress, has been
a foregone conclusion for months, yet itstands
out as remarkable incident in local politics
that Mr.. Beldcn has not moved hand or foot to
attain this end. tho nomination coming
to him by force Of tho knowledge that
he would like tho honor. There has
been some kicking on the back seats
in Cortland county. as the delegates from that
county have been periodically voting for Onon-
daga men since soon after. the food; but Cort-
- to 10 in caucus for Belden cast It's full vote
weeks Carroll E. Smith. editor Of the syracuse
Bdsn aon
falls into line tonight, Tho Standard, the other
Republican paper. will SUPPORT Mr.; Belden cor
tho Courier has had some succOr from Mr.. Bel
den in tho past 1t will not be a very bad DEM
ocratic opponent. SO he has smooth sailing to
nominate a candidate. which is very probable.
The fact is that Mr.. Belden is very popular in
this city on account Of bis public spirit and
beneitInEtions. The good Methodists on Univer-
town. have received $40, 900 from him for their
sont of learning. and do not forget 1t.
There Is great joy In the city might over
land in tho Convention naming Senator His
cock as the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent: He said that should New York be car
prevent pr" on his Being the Re a nominee
thrills Hscocks friends clear down in their
boots Eood;isized boom a5 may now start up
and Sherman camD.
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THE ANTI-POvERTY FAIR.
THE WOMEN TAKE THE HELM IN NAB
ISON SQUARE GARDEN

Trying to Raise Money 10 Fay the Election
Expenses OF the Untted Labor Party-Dr.
Mctsiynn's birthday Celebrstion Tonight
Madison Square Garden last evening COM
blned tho attactions OF q ballroom q concert
hall, an Industrial exhibition, an art gallery.
q fancy goods bazaar, race course, n dining
room, drinking place-temporanc drinks
u flower garden. and many other features In q
grand conglomeration. spiced with little Of
tho destinations OF lottery and favored with
little OF the essence OF q political meeting.
The occasion. more briefly described, was the
opening night Of a fair and festival which tho
Anti-Povcrty Society IL holding for the purpose
OF aboishing some OF Its own poverty.
Tho society has been noted for tho fact that
q large proportion OF the audiences at Its re-
markably enthusiastic meeting have been anti
poverty maids and matrons, This was also
true Of the McGlynn demonstrations and St
Stephens parish meetings from which the sos
ciety grow. Tho politicians have been uccus-
toned to note this as an element OF weakness
In the organization, so far Ms Its position az
pillar in the structure Of the United Labor
party is concerned. The point in their minds
was that although the women could wave
handkerchiefs and spat their gloved hands Mt
the meetings. they could not vote on election
day. The women are doing their best, though.
and all the money they raise at tho fair will 60
toward paying the election expenses OF the
party. The politicians who have said that the
women were merely passengers in the move
ment are thus to be shown that the women
can work their passages.
The opening OF the fair last evening was
Taeson IS TN pescoa b
pr McGlynn in celebration of his fitieth BIRTH
Last night with no such adyentitious aid.
the character and extent q the hard work
done by tho enthusiastic anti-poverty women
was seen plainly. The men wore at discount
the affair. though at premium as. visitors
however, the more 80 as the premium was not
eare 81 cens and tSs
S Sossfsy sllppers: :poSs:sy bats 81;
ali sorts Of useful and ornamental anti
poverty articles were held at correspondingly
'c The appeals Of the fair. brisht-eyed canvass
ers were earnest and very, apt to be fetching;
but they wore not carried to the extreme OF
rangement last night was the rallied of dane
ing floor. with room for goo eonpies. On which
conspicuous success. The donkey party made
much fun. BIindfolded purc6aseIs Of q
interest In the n a tried to
1t belonged on q tailless, pictured donkey. A
prize went to the one who came the nearest.
influence the choice Of atestimonial to your
favSrite newspapeE: the disposition Of fne
the
most Of the visitors were Democrats, Repnbli-
cans, Prohibitionists., or United Laborers. Four
dropesd into each Counted for the party named
on 1t at the rate OF a vote for each cent.
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DEATH or JULIA TURNBULL.
A Once Famous Actress aud Dancer Passes
Awny In brooklyn.

A Mr.. Turnbull and his daughters were
new corners in tho stock company OF the old
Chatham Theatre during the season of 1928.
On April 90 OF that year Juia Turnbull made
her first appearance in America. She was
scarce six years old at tho time, but she made
hit In a song" The Dashing White Ser
geant" then an immensely popular
Thing, Mtorwarl she was played at
ing with Nine. Augusta through ali that
actress engagements. In 1889 she was sue
cesstul at the BoTery as dancer, her youth
and bcauty making hHr most attractive and
talked-about stage figure Of that day. especially
IN tho ballet of The Sisters" When Fanny
Ellsler aud Nine. Celeste visited America Miss
Turnbull was in their support. ON Sept. 8,
1913. she took what was announced as her
farewell benefit" at the Bowery Theatre,
playing in Charles IL" and "Esmeralda !" but
in 1857 In Pittsburgh, she was again seon be-
fore the footlights, this time as Zoio In La
Bnyardere" and Muette de Iortici in Nassau
'lellu." She then retired to private life Though
her death occurred In brooklyn on Sent. II
theatrical people heard OF l. yesterday for tho
first time.
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YrrERANs INVADE ST LOUIS.
Theusands or Them Livsns Under Canvas
on n VERY Wet Day.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. GA national salute
from Camp Washington heralded tho dawning
Of day. A fine mist dampened the atmosphere
early this morning. and gradually Increased
into steady, disagreeable rain. The first
trains Of tho early morning brought more war
riors and moro visitors. The West and South
poured in its great crowds as steadily
as the rain dropped through tho Clouds
and Kansasmen, with their 'grasshopper
badges. came on in force. Joining the
Nebraska fellows. with their corn badges, az
the camp at Washington Park. The gloom OF
the day was disPelled by the fife and the beat eat
indicated the spirit that was wrapped up In
blouse and spangled with brass buttons and
copper badges. The Pacific slope had scarcely
settled down before the nearer West poured IN n
Texas, Iowa and Missouri contingents re-
ported many mon. and announced the coming
ofthousands more.
,By noon, the railroads had brought In 1o, 900
citizen soldiers and many members OF their
households. AT the depots and the camps all
seemed confusion, but order quickly gained
aseendancy, and tho search for old regiments
and old friends began at once
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Obituary.

John Findley. pioneer In the settlement of
Ansonia, Conn. died yesterday aged II years. Mr.
Findley was Jenersonan Democrat He was Post
master Of Ansonia under Buchanan and was tho last
Democrat to hold tho office until Cleveland appointed his
son, John L. fndley. He has served the and Dor
ough in several capacities
James Partridge: retired sash and blind manufac
turer died on Sunday At O2 stuyvesant avenue BROOK
Ign. aged 5
Col George A. Basserman, awelLknown citizen Of New
Haven died suddenly yesterday from heart dtpease He
was Colonel OF the Second Regiment In 1853 and 1870
and has held many municipal Offices lie proprietor
George Wood, proprietor and editor of the daily and
weekly Tmes Of Clean, Y. died yesterday Of typhoid
fever, aged 30 years.
John y. Campbell died In Clinton. Ill, Yesterday aged
o. Al the age OF IL he enlisted in tho OF 1912 and
served until Its close When the Black Hawk broke
out no volunteered and served with distinction He
~ me room wren the treaty was made with Black
the reading and signing.
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ALL ROUND FOR SARATOGA.
Tammanyites, Counties. md Irving Hall Men
Go to the Convention.

The Tammauy Hall and County Democ-
racy's delegates to the Democratic State Con-
vention that Is to be held In Saratoga to-day
left this city yesterday morning in special
trains on the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad. The Irving Hall delegates
started for Saratoga, too. but their depart
ure was not marked by anything in
particular except by its similarity to
the Arabs who silently stole away.
No special train carried the Irving Hall men to
tho Convention, but two cars linked to thenend
Of an accommodation train that stopped at
every station bore them with all their doubts
and misgivings to the seat of war. The dele
gates looked calm. despite their uncertainty
regarding the treatment in store for them ut
the hands Of their fellow Democrats. They ar
ranged it 80 that their departure came an hour
or more after that of the Tammanyites
These august gentlemen. to tho number OF
nearly 900. began arriving at the depot as early
as s O'Clock. They wore an air of complacent
ease Diamonds flashed from snowy shirt
fronts. from gaudy ties. from fingers, and from
cuff buttons.
Sheriff Grant was there to SEQ some friends
off, and TO send on word that he would follow
later in the day with big Commissioner BrcI-
nan ana District Attorney MARITIME. The
Sheriff wore shirt with blotches of color all
over it and a brown tie that had private
blotches of It's own. RQtund Judge Clancy in a
flannel shirt scattered big stories OF the big fish
he had caught in the Great South Bay all about
him. Under Sheriff Sexton was prepared to
face the world with no other weapon than II
big stick OF chewing gum. Patrick GGvau
Duffy, az blithe and gay as u school boy enjoy
ing vacation. skipped to and fro, and did not
sober down until he had paid 81 for his ticket.
Congressman Timothy j. Campbell, the loved
OF all, was dressed In his everyday clothes.
His Prince Albert coat had the second button-
hole negligently fastened over the first button.
This showed his big diamond and white crayat
to advantage; and removed tho impression that
he was proud.
Elk Coroner Kennedy, familiar in the high
hat that he has worn many years. talked of
dOlolul things with Deputy Coroner Jenkins.
Joseph Stiner flashed tho biggest diamond.
Judge Gorman lot 81 happy no saii How
dNc doP" 10 everybody. Ills gray
Wlliskcys. We're nicely guriod. Lawyer
would have TO revoke Shaps conviction be-
cause they couldn't do anything else. Clerk
Toal was trying TO forget the cares OF the Coro-
ners' ONCE BY standing on one foot and making
believe he had lost his ticket. Chief Clerk
Hugh Donnelly OF the Supreme Court stood out
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-27
PLANTS JUMP FROM THE ROOF
A War Veteran Driven by HalIucInations
to Jump from u Six.story Building.

A War Veteran Driven by HalIucInations
to Jump from u Six-stOry building.
Charles Plant, a veteran Of the civil war
and member of DahlGren Post 113, G. A. R.,
leaped from the roof OF the tenement at 46
First street early yesterday morning in fit of
insanity. and died few hours later from the
injuries he incurred.
Plant was an EnGlishman. He came to this
country whom II years of age. and learned the
trade ofmouldins bars and silver. During the
war. in which lie enlisted early. he was wound
ed twice. once in tho left side and later in the
top of the head, the ball entering tho brain. AS
result his mental balance was affected. and
OF late years he was subject to attacks Of mild
insanity. Ho was employed by Tiffany 4 Co..
who liked his work. and sent him home when
ever his oddities became marked.
These seizures finally became SO frequent
that on last Christmas Plant was sent to
Wards Island Insane Asylum. from which he
was discharged as cured in April. He some,
tmss sPoks 81 ia received there and
tho place. He worked at his trade for two
weeks after his return, and then had to give 1t
Saturday afternoon he was seized with IN at
tack OF extra violence His wife was absent at
sr Was at her ayyndrs Hs s sma ani
three daughter do not live at homo,
After singing and dancing awhile Plant went
was after him. For weeks this has been the
phantom Of his insanity. He q, said Sullivan was
declared he would go up and meet him there,
and mounted the, one flight of stairs to tho
roof. He remained there perhaps an hopr. He
door Of a neiGhboripg house. Finding it closed
he broke 1t Open, His wife returning and find
ing him so much worse than usual, tried to
Brighten him into sabImpission by threatcning
he replied that no would, Jump of the roof
rather than go. Presently he went down stairs
and said. Pm all right now" He remained
quiet all the evening. His wife and daughter
with neGhbor in tho lower hall. followed them
At o'clock yesterday morning Plant quietly
arose, opened the door, went to the roolin his
night clothes. climbed through the fencing
near the edge, and jumped or fell six stories
into the yard behind. network. of clothes
but his spine was disocQtel The people liv-
ing in tho lower floor rushed out at his shreks,
and carried him indoors.
"Shoot me- shoot me!' he besought them,
piteously. XIII mo, kill me- Oh, mother, my
back, my back! oh Dorar'
He was taken TO bellevue Hospital. and after
few hours of intense suffering he died.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-27
DARKNESS At THE POST oFz1cE
A Fireman Daueereusly Injured by an Elec
trio shock and the Lights Put Out.

James Murray, fireman, and Thomas Gray,
engineer in the electric light department OF
the General Post Office. were in their quarters
in the basement under Mail street at GAO
o'clock last night engaged in putting belt
over pulley The belt slipped and broke the
pulley and the electric wires simultaneously.
Murray. who stood on q ladder. fell over wire
in the confusion, and received shock which
threw him with great violence upon the floor.
The wires breaking; severed the connection.
leaving the building in total darkness.
found to DO terribly Injured. His jaw was
broken. his left arm fractured in three places.
and he had received internal Injuries: He was
Hospital. Tho doctors think he will die. He
is 80 years old. and lives on tho northwest cor
ner Of Thirty-third street and Eighth avenue.
The, United States IIluminating Company
does the lighting Of the Post ONCE. Tho COM
pany could not repair the damage at once. and
the Mail street lobby. which is Illuminated by
wires from the street. Engineer Shannon. who
OF the building when the accident took place.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-27

Miss Phoebe Couxins Appointed United
States Marahal in NJ. Louis.

STATES nAnrsnoi In 1T LOUIS
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 26.-Mr. Justice Miller Of
the United States Supreme Court presided
this morning in the United States Circuit
Court. He announced that vacancy existed
in the Office OF tho United Statos Marshal in
this district, occasioned by the death Of Mar
shal Couzins, and that the Comptroller Of the
Treasury had demanded tho appointment Of
q Marshal ad interim. Justice Miller said he
had determined to appoint as Marshal ad
interim Phoebe w. Couzins. tho daughter OF
the deceased Marshal. Tho statute required
that she should give bond IN the sum of
$4,000, and take the oath OF Office before the
Clerk of tho Court. He did not observe Miss
as she could furnish the bond she could qualify
and at once enter upon the duties Of the office.
The announcement appeared to surprise
severa! attorneys. who were not prepared to
hear Of the appointment Of q woman; but 1t
for o long time directed the executive affairs
Of the office, and she possesses the friendship
and influence of men In the highest authority
ut Washington.
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Mira. Mulcahy Wa. Not Drowned.

People in Glen Cove are now very firmly i'm
pressed with belief that Mrs. Mulcahy, the woman
whose body found at the bottom cistern satur
day morning. was victim Of foul play. Her husband
said she fell into the osiern and was drowned Tho
autopsy revealed the fact that death had be-
caused by strangulation. " 1850
ON Thursday Mncahy gave his wife beating, and she
got warrant Tor his arrest Friday morning. He
kept out o. me way al day returning 10 his home drunk
about miluhight. Neighbors heard him and his wfo
Is tha, during the midnight hight Mleahy choEed his
wife TO death and threw the body down tho well II
was reported last night that he had but
him. - ~ "NNs'S Ai'
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Jury. To nine OF tho jurors no. challenge
eSs. 70 ws G St mi So
taken 40 ons Juror only was sxesgtion taken 4, 20
Court % ,Sls case was not srronsops time q tho
S5.s al ~ es
which be did not sys himself Ss Thu; the defendants
The record contains many swSin.
led upon ss rial WSie rulings were Claimed to BE-
justlasd on IN The ground that il tho Jury found
about gwen result Sy ,SnlsSial means t5;s
e 1s S was sna .s ssya Is
them = was claimed by Tie ds,endant that In the n
a Ss h. Ts 10 S; . Sr w'h
yeied o. felony n reality he was tried on tho felony
Judge Bartlett ooncurs In tho following
opinion:
Iareo with the other membsrs Of the court IN their
think evidence Tor the prosecution required Ihs snh
81 M S hs uis es 10 e ira
Of lie defendant ant '''' ''''' ''''''''' ~ ''' ''
Judge grady. IN concurring with the opinion
The prosecution In order to max. manifest tho charge
TINT lie implicated Aldermen had combined to vote Tor
compsnsation In money which was fIrnishcd BY the
ater 10 ~ on daas tna
Wesed b he
on the same subject committed wful and deliberate
SsssSa.n. complain. q tsl, mod. of procedure
violated IL forms the chief feature of his appea JUS
ce Daniels has discussed these points wei others
Sersey TO tho "a en- and the ohsr IN Of the
/, Ss
people In relation the combination and the defend
ants participation IN the scheme 1t embraced were
fences In ali aecusStons Therefore Of persons
act in secret to sScSmpiis The Object IN view w6.Sycr
is done by either in firherance OF It, and indeed what
ever Is done BY either after the Illegal act y performed
mnt pne,nh M ernn mo r s
fopncd fr ovIns snn i ,oIn, e' nav e may NJ,
be- shown to have existed except by proof OF facts and
which isolated would seem of little value
indeed ilsgnincant-bu which when grouped pre-
sent an imposing demonstration -,,
The rules or evidence rs consequence necessarily
ally affecting the question but Which tend 70 establish
The imputed crime. are admissible, and the con
s has led to the adoption OF rule: in 1 as
hnve resortcd herein To- such evidence not
say show anasta sonSlna,isn bn. e .sssss
facts ana srsum.iansss which though when separately
com are sesmnay nmportant become nonen
coInpae,i.ss"aI legal mosaic inpressiye eonmandine
convincing
rho official order or notics y, tho dsc;s,op
will not be served upon District Attorney Ma
delov Il IN ordnr fm vo NJ an cnnnso m mn
oe,ay IN oraer 10 E'e vi: oharp eounSSi III
uppnpSno,h tyy,h No. keep 'nelr c,r ON ~ ,a.i
na than IN ny ,eI S pra ~ S.rF rant
I une enSrii san yes,erday tnat mh,ess mere
wa aS, H noW LIZA, ~ E1 MI. Snarp
"pnil Ds IahSn 70 SinE oinR ON TIiuay tnorhime.
sniI ,b att t Neison u, SounSe, ior ut SHARP
s;t d tnat VIZ CMse Woeu uhuoHHteuiy oe car i,i
n,V mr ~ .n1 Iuhru vi MS GouT. Maii
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HE THOUGHT HE WAS MURDERER.
jobs Daisy Beat IIis Mother Until He
Thinks She IL Dead aad then Fled.

Thinks She IL Dead aad then Fled.
Last night at the tenement house So Scam.
mel street John Daisy. mad with drink. stabbed
his gray haired mother. Johanna Daisy. with
fork in the face and head. Fearing she would
be murdered she shrieked for help. Tho
drunken brute grasped his mother by the hair.
threw her on tho floor. and kicked and beat her
to acknowledgements. He then undressed her,
and. after washing the blood of her face and
head. placed her on tho bed and covered her
with q sheet
He made fire in the stove. and placed tho
bloody garments In the stove. Daisy. thinking
clothes. and, after washing himself, left the
house. and succeeded In escaping.
Soon after his departure several neighbours
woman shockingly cut and bruised, but still
alive. They sent for an ambulance. which took
her injuries are serious
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DROVE BACK TIE POLICE
Stones and Pitehferks Prove Tso Much for
the Irish Constabulary.

LONDON, Sept. GA force Of police and
bailiffs at Kilbarry. ireland. seized a number
OF cattle belonging to the Harley family for
non-puyment OF rent. A crowd which had
gathered made an attack with stones and
pltchforks upon the officers. The police used
assailants. but We're compeied to retre e . and
leave the cattle behind them.
Archbishop Walsh has issued q pastoral, in
which he says he hopes the people will refrain
from violence and continue In the paths OF JUS
tice. Such q course only. he says, will bring
peace to Ireland. Everything Is quiet at Fer
moy this morning.
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OTTAWA. Sept 26.-The express train which
eft Ottawa this afternoon Montreal on the Canada
Atlantic Railroad was wrecked three miles below East
mans Springs The accident was caused by the OF.
panson or the rails due to heat from burning ties
Fortunately the engineer saw tho danger and slowed
up The cars were not upset. but simply tore up the
track and stuck In the ground, where they caught ro
ana were burned There were $50 passengers board
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Delay on the Bridge.

There was an annoying delay in tho railroad
traffic on the bridge last evening" resulting from an ac.
cident to tho machinery which operates tho cable
About O'Clock train OF started down tho incline
from the sands street depot without catching cable
ana II was found that the drawbar head used in grin
ping the cable TO the cars had broken ON Tho rain
came to stand near the Brooklyn tower and
mere Tor twenty minutes, in which time the damage
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Shot by n Isax Con,tah,..

PATcHoouE. Sept. 26.-George W. Raynor a
baymsn was shot by Constable Oliver Clark Smith last
night. smith arrested on charge of attempt "a
ll Raynor was sailing homeward across Great sou,h
bay when he was oyerlIaued by n vessel on hoard Of
which were smith, another constable named Payne
and Town Trustee Cap' rhnrber Smith told Raynor he
~ night and requested mat he be permitted to Insnect
EaynnrS vessel Raynor declined and smith ITed a
charge OF No shot him. RAynor denipa yniaIinv
he ,nM smith will be examined before Justice CnrmAn
omOrrow RAynors injuries are slight
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Evangelist Mn.... I.a,s..S.

HACKENsAcK. Sept. 26-Mnason. the Park
Ridge revivaist brought into to-day and a.
raigned under the namo Of Mnason I. Huntsman. The
indictment accuses him of being public nuisance whoa
asked whether he was guilty tho prisoner replied:
IN, Not guilty not that know Of God u my witness"
~ jail in default OF $500 There appears to be doubt
that Leach. tho Sunday school superintendent who
drove Mnason OF Park Ridge also been Indicted
He II away from home at present
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CHICAGO. Sept. 26.-Oscar Neebe, the only
of the convicted upon whom the sentence
of death passed. tonight taken to the peni
tentary Joliet enter upon his term Of fifteen Year,
imprisonment. The affirmation by the supreme Court
case unless tho United State. Court shoud In
In the county jail until Nov H. the day set BY the gu
preme Court for their execution The parting between
impressive Each Of tho wrung his hand slsnos